Woman arrested after allegedly breastfeeding at a bar

A mother and her husband have been arrested after allegedly taking their 7-month-old daughter to a party at a bar in the US - as witnesses said the woman was smoking and drinking while breastfeeding her child.

Shari Treba, 42, and Michael Trosclair, 45 face charges of neglect of a dependent, and public intoxication. According to a police affadavit, the couple were in Indianopolis for a work conference, and Trosclair was “angry and belligerent” at the scene. They wrote “partying was more important than their child”.

A witness claimed that Treba had been offering sex to people who would go inside the bar and get her a beer, while another said she chained a stroller - with the baby in it - outside the bar as she went into drink.

When police confronted Treba as she was stood outside the bar by the stroller, she had to be asked several times who she was and where she was from due to intoxication.

Her husband Trosclair had to be restrained with handcuffs for fear that he would start a fight in front of the baby.

Court documents show the child was taken into state custody. She was examined at a nearby hospital where she was found to have no signs of intoxication or other physical signs of neglect or abuse.

Both Treba and Trosclair have been released from custody, and are scheduled to appear in court next month.